A Texas inmate has been executed for fatally stabbing two Houston-area brothers during a robbery in their home more than 30 years ago. Sept. 28, 2021, at 8:37 p.m. ... Rick Rhoades, 57, was executed by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

When was the last time an inmate was executed?

13 federal death row inmates have been executed since federal executions resumed in July 2020. The last and most recent federal execution was of Dustin Higgs, who was executed on January 16, 2021. Higgs' execution was also the last under the presidency of Donald Trump.

When was the last time Texas had an execution?

Texas, which is the second most populous state of the Union, has executed 573 offenders from the U.S. capital punishment resumption in 1976 (beginning in 1982 with the Brooks execution) to September 28, 2021 (the execution of Rick Allan Rhoades), more than a third of the national total.